Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Tumors: Advanced Diagnosis and Management
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 1916
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hepatobiliary and pancreatic tumors present significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges, and they continue to constitute a significant health burden with an ultimately poor prognosis for the most malignant tumors.
Over the last decade, remarkable progress has been made regarding the management of hepatobiliary cancers, particularly with the introduction of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy. However, the same cannot be said for pancreatic cancer, although some advances have been made as more information concerning individualized treatments based on actionable molecular alterations, especially for KRAS wild-type metastatic alterations, have become available. More work must is necessary to refine the risk factors, optimize the screening modalities for premalignant lesions, enhance imaging for diagnosis, apply imaging modalities as biomarkers for disease prognosis and predicting treatment responses. Ultimately, these will enhance new drug development efforts and will translate into an improvement in our patients’ quality of life, alleviate suffering and improve overall survival.
This Special Issue seeks to assemble papers around the above themes. We are therefore looking forward to receiving original research articles, review articles and short communications in these areas. We welcome articles that explore the disparities in screening, diagnosis, treatment and biomarker development, and those that explore the role of artificial intelligence across the translational and clinical landscape of hepatobiliary and pancreatic tumors.
Dr. Olumide Gbolahan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pancreatic malignacies
- hepatocellular cancer
- biliary tract cancer
- cholangiocarcinoma
- gallbladder cancer
- diagnosis
- disparities
- AI
- imaging
- biomarkers
- personalized medicine
- next generation sequencing
- screening
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